Critique involves working with beta readers to polish your manuscript before you submit it for publication. Reviews are the response from book buyers that you receive after you publish.

Beta ReadersThe articles in this sub-section pertain to beta readers, who provide a typical reader reaction before the publication process.

Check out the Website DoesTheDogDie.comThe website DoesTheDogDie.com lists movies with succinct information on whether the plot of each requires an animal to be harmed or die. This enables the soft-hearted to avoid such movies. I wish there were an equivalent website for fiction books.

Know the Unwritten Rules of Your GenreIn order to write successfully in a certain genre, you must know the unwritten rules – in short, what the readers in that genre want to see. This is overlooked by countless writers who either jump eagerly into a specific genre without researching it first, or knowingly try to break the rules.